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Major General George Pearkes, the Tories' military critic, read a telegram from the China Officers Guild at Hong Kong reporting that the Canadian-registered, Chinese-manned Ming Sung ships were loading war materials for Red China at Macao. Tory Leader George Drew demanded that the Canadian registry for the ships be withdrawn. Said Drew: "These ships . . . assist the enemy at a time when that enemy is sending its troops to fight our troops in Korea...
This week the deadlock seemed as far from solution as ever. The N.Y. Teachers' Guild asked the State Supreme Court for a temporary injunction against the new after-class work rule, and in at least one high school, restive students themselves resolved to boycott extracurricular activities if teachers are forced to conduct them...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Paul Douglas in Elmer the Great...
Died. Henriette Cox Broun, 93, mother of the late columnist and American Newspaper Guild founder, Heywood Broun; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In her youth a fiery socialist, pacifist and women's rights pioneer, she changed her views in later years, became a persistent writer of letters-to-the-editor, urging "fair treatment for employers," good-naturedly feuded with son Heywood, who thumb-nailed her as a "confirmed reactionary and a bridge player." Predicted Broun: "When the revolution comes, it's going to be a tough problem what to do with her. We will either have...
...novelist, Cardinal Spellman is bland and amateurish. But if his book will not advance American literature, it will do positive good in another quarter: every nickel of the proceeds (including about $40,000 from the Literary Guild) goes to the New York Foundling Hospital...